cryptocurrencies

Coinstar machines will start selling Bitcoin at the grocery store – TechCrunch You know those machines at the grocery store that transform your gallon jugs worth of change into more usable currency? They’re about to start selling Bitcoin . To make this impulse shopping dream come true, Coinstar, the company …

Coinbase acquihires San Francisco startup Blockspring – TechCrunch Coinbase is continuing its push to suck up talent after the $8 billion-valued crypto business snapped up Blockspring, a San Francisco-based startup that enables developers to collect and process data from APIs. The undisclosed deal was announced by Blockspring on its blog, …

Crypto mining giant Bitmain is reportedly getting a new CEO as its IPO plan stalls – TechCrunch Bitmain, the Chinese crypto miner maker, looks like it has reached an interesting point in its pathway to going public. There’s been little heard since the company filed to go public in Hong …

NYSE operator’s crypto project Bakkt brings in $182M – TechCrunch The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) cryptocurrency project Bakkt celebrated New Year’s Eve with the announcement of a $182.5 million equity round from a slew of notable institutional investors. ICE, the operator of several global exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, established …

Atari teams up with some startup to pretend to make blockchain-based games – TechCrunch Animoca Brands will produce and publish blockchain-based versions of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Goon Squad worldwide (excluding China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau); the new titles will feature the integration of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The term of …

Opera brings a flurry of crypto features to its Android mobile browser – TechCrunch Crypto markets may be down down down, but that isn’t stopping Opera’s crypto feature — first released in beta in July — from rolling out to all users of its core mobile browser today as the company …

Feds like cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech and so should antitrust agencies – TechCrunch Thibault Schrepel Contributor Thibault Schrepel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Economic Law at Utrecht University and a reviewer at the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy. While statements and position papers from …

Coinbase abandons its cautious approach with plan to list up to 30 new cryptocurrencies – TechCrunch Coinbase is the most conservative exchange in cryptoland, largely because it operates in the U.S. under the watchful eye of the SEC. The $8 billion-valued company trades fewer than ten cryptocurrencies to consumers but …

DJ Khaled and Mayweather Jr. charged with fraud over cryptocurrency promotion DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather Jr. and settled with the SEC over charges that they didn’t disclose that they had been paid to promote a fraudulent initial coin offering for cryptocurrency platform Centra. The post DJ Khaled and Mayweather …

The Coinmine One is a box that mines crypto at home – TechCrunch For $799 you can start mining cryptocurrencies in your home, a feat that previously either required a massive box costing thousands of dollars or, if you didn’t actually want to make any money, a Raspberry Pi. The …